The College News
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VOL. XXVII, No. 25
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1941 copyright, Ttumm of PRICE 10 CENTS
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S. Ingalls Wins European Fellowship
Red Cross Backs
Nurses' Training
Course at College
School to Spend Summer
In Intensive Program
Of Study
Goodhart, May 26.�Last Mon-
day Miss Park announced that the
Red Cross will sponsor a training
school for nurses, open from June
26 to September 12, on the campus.
Operating in collaboration with
Bryn Mawr and with the Woman's
Medical College of Pennsylvania,
the school will enable two hundred
college graduates to complete their
training for a nurse's certificate in
less than the usual three years.
The students will live in Rocke-
feller and Rhoads, and will have
classes in Taylor. They will use
the laboratories of the Woman's
Medical College in Germantown.
The curriculum will be decided
by a committee of which Miss Mar-
garet E. Conrad, Dean of the
School, will be chairman. Miss
Gardiner will represent Bryn Mawr
on the committee.
With the three months of inten-
sive theoretical work at this school,
a girl will probably be allowed to
qualify as a military nurse after
one year of practical work in a
regular school, and she may re-
ceive her full nurse's certificate
after two years. Definite details
have not yet been worked out. She
will, however, be required to take
at least one year of practical work.
The school, it is hoped, will be
similar to the one established at
Vassar in 1917. The idea was
suggested to Mrs. Chadwick Collins
by Mrs. Thomas R. White, who
graduated from the Vassar School,
and was approved by the Woman's
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Rufus Jones Speaks
To Graduating Class
Calls Attention to Necessity
Of Recognizing Permanent
Values in Life
Goodhart, June 1.�If we are to
say one final word about life to a
;*roup of students on the point of
graduation, we must talk about the
realities which we all know are
real, Dr. Rufus M. Jones, Trustee
and Director of Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, explained in his Baccalaure-
ate sermon. "Finally, whatever is
true, whatever is good, whatever
is beautiful, form your minds oh
these realities.�And the peace of
God which passes all comprehen-
sion shall garrison your hearts and
minds."
The real test of education is not
your passing mark in finals, Dr.
Jones said. The real test is your
selection of what is to direct your
thoughts, whether you have learned
to appreciate the right things.
In this time of world confusion,
certain values of life still stand
out clearly. Dr. Jones laid special
stress on the eternal realities of
beauty, goodness, truth and pure
love. These realities are the things
by which we live, "the riches which
neither moth nor rust corrupt, nor
do thieves or depressions sweep
them away." Now above every-
thing else we need to come back
to these simplicities, to these veri-
fiable realities of religion which
are in harmony with the truth
and the laws of life which we have
learned in our studies. Dr. Jones
pointed out that in the supreme
battles of the soul, religion can
bring steadiness and give us an in-
ward assurance that eternal forces
are allied with us.
In the main, a person can have
what she wants on the condition
that she wants it enough and sets
her mind to it. "The resolute will
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English Exam Suffers From an Evil Omen
And Blaring Band Bothers Baby Biologists
By Alice Crowder, '42 |
While the two week grind mani-
fested by the rising pile of books
on the reserve room desk and the
thickening atmosphere of quiet
smoking rooms went on without a
slip, there were decided break-
downs in the hidden machinery of
examination. The first notice of
decline in that machinery came
when the office generously printed
the answers to one question in Mr.
Herben's English Literature exam.
While Mr. Herben feverishly
worked to scratch, out the tell-tale
marks, Mr. Sprague was delegated
to tell the class to have no fear,
the exam would appear. It was no
use. The fevered anxieties of fifty
odd people rose with the ticking oft*
of minute after minute and Tom
Jones and Moll Flanders leaked out
of overwrought brains. Twenty-
five minutes later the exam ap-
peared. -It was quickly finished.
One student, finishing an unfortu-
nate half hour early, calmly wrote
a letter to her family in a blue
book. Another, leaving twelve min-
utes early, Vhispered to Mr. Her-
ben in passing that she was sorry
she just didn't know another twelve
minutes' worth.
The Eighteenth Century English
Literature exam was lost. While
mimeograph machines worked at
top speed turning out new ones, the
class enjoyed a pleasant chat on
Taylor steps, completing uncertain
details.
The most ominous of the mishaps
was the bird in the English Com-
prehensive room. All would have
been well if there were no Latin
requirement for English majors.
As it was, everyone knew the pres-
ence of the bird on the left was
extremely unfortunate. Some re-
fused to face the cold fact that it
was a bird and climbed screeching
onto chairs while the creature flut-
tered over the floor.
The whole mental equilibrium of
many was upset during the first
year geology exam by a glance at
the blackboard. There unmistak-
ably were inscribed the unenlight-
�ning words: "Shoot the rock to me
Doc." An equally disturbing ele-
ment was the Memorial Day parade
which broke up an otherwise
orderly First Year Biology exam.
Pencils and blue books were left
behind in a mad rush for the bal-
conies. Loud laments were raised
as the time drew to a close: "Oh,
give us fifteen more minutes: you
know�the parade."
Informality characterized the ex-
amination season from first to last.
An astonished advanced Engfl'sh
History class was told, "Mrs. Man-
ning forgot all about you." And
Mr. Diez snapped close his book at
twelve o'clock: "Well, Ladies, when
you're ready to go, I am."
B. Hamlin. Major in Chemistry, is Alternate;
Dr. Neilson Delivers Commencement Address
Ninety-nine Degrees
Of Bachelor of Arts
Granted to Seniors
SUSIE INGALLS
Tea Given in Honor
Of Lady Halifax in
The Deanery Garden
Deanery, May 21.�A tea in hon-
or of Lady Halifax, wife of the
British Ambassador, was given in
the Deanery Garden on Wednes-
day afternoon, May 21. Many of
the faculty, staff, friends of the
college and about one hundred and
fifty undergraduates were received
by Lady Halifax, Miss Park, Mrs.
Chadwick-Collins and Vivi French.
Lady Halifax, who was intro-
duced by Miss Park, warmed Bryn
Mawr hearts by, commenting on the
resemblance of our buildings to
those, at Oxford. She discussed the
friendly relations created between
the youth of England and America
by exchange scholars, and wished
that Bryn Mawr might always re-
main "young in spirit and only
grow old in fame and tradition."
Maids and Porters
Entertain Students
Gymnasium, May 20.�In appre-
ciation to the students who help
with maid's classes and plays, the
maids and porters gave a party on
Tuesday evening, May 20, iq the
gym. As an added attraction they
presented the Utopia Female Chor-
us of Philadelphia.
Jeanette Holland introduced the
talented hosts and hostesses, and
Anna Kearney and Louise Simms
added words of thanks. There
were readings by Lillian Canty,
Cary Crunkleton, accompanied by
Elizabeth Jones, Minnie Newton,
Pearl Edmonds and Louis White.
Among those who sang solos were
Marjorie Draine, Mable Ross and
the incomparable Carl Smith. The
trio of Pearl Edmonds, Anna White
and Louise Simms provided an un-
expected comic element.
Opening the 56th Commencement
Exercises of Bryn Mawr College,
Dr. William Allen Neilson, presi-
dent-emeritus of Smith College, de-
.ivered the address to the graduat-
ng class. After the degrees of
Bachelor of Arts were conferred
up.m ninety-nine seniors, Miss
Park announed Rachel Susannah
Ingalls, of Virginia, as the 53rd
European Fellow. Miss Ingalls,
graduated tntiyna cum luude, with
distinction in economics.
The alternate was announced as
Miss Bojan Constance Hamlin, who,
graduated cum laude with distinc-
tion in Chemistry, has been doing
research in organic chemistry.
Miss Park conferred the follow-
ing degrees:
Candidates for Degrees
Bachelor of Arts
BIOLOGY
Anne Fairchild Pendleton Bowler
New York,
Juliana Day Massachusetts
Jean Gray Ferguson
cum laude Connecticut
With Distinction
Jane Vincent Harper Illinois
Athleen Ruth Jacobs
Pennsylvania
Virginia Center Nichols
New York
Winifred Elizabeth Santee
New York
S.isic Ingalls, has been awarded j Margaret Squibb Massachusetts
Susie Ingalls Reveals
Details of an Active
And Metallic Career
the Bryn Mawr European Fellow-
ship of the value of five hundred
dollars. The fellow is chosen an-
nually on the ground of excellence
in scholarship. The fellowship is
intended to be applied toward the
expenses of one year's study and
residence at some foreign un-
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Alison Stokes Pennsylvania
CHEMISTRY
Helene Riddle Washington
Rojan Constance Hamlin
cum laude Illinois
With Distinction
Kathleen Elizabeth Kirk
cum lauile Pennsylvania
Anna Slocum Taylor New York
Continued on race Four
Poll Finds Seniors Allergic to Requireds,
Fond of History, Reading Period and College
The class of 1941 seems to be
quite a contented one. Sixty-five
out of 77, if they had to do it
over, would come to Rryn Mawr
again; 60 would have the
major; 65 would live in the same
hall; and 30 are planning to send
their daughters here. (Thirty-six
wisely said it would depend upon
the daughter, one future mother
admitting that unless the offspring
were brighter than she, she would
send her elsewhere.)
iods, practice comprehensives, an
earlier start, and no papers or
quizzes in the second term. Others
felt that they were too easy and
a�^ had not yet become really com-
prehensive. The honors system
was generally approved, ten girls,
however, recommending that more
people should take part in them.
Sociology had a big lead in being
thought the easiest department in
the college, the sciences, with his-
tory as runner-up, having the ma-
They also seem to be wholesomely M thfi most djfficu,t Inci.
giT]8'..0r t^*.B*t *VnJ" *"?_' dentally, the lowest marks of the
Senior class ranged from a wo
(1/10% in second place) to a 77.
Requireds�Baby German, Philoso-
phy, English Lit. and Freshman
Comp.�were the most unpopular
courses, while Minor History led
in being thought the most valu-
able. First Year Psychology,
Philosophy, and History of Art
tied for second place. Almost
every course was mentioned once,
and it evident that in general first
year courses were far less popular
than advanced.
It is gratifying to note that the
News is the extra-curricular activ-
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per senior during college has been
.225 lbs., and while nine let off
steam in drink, 15 preferred ath-
letics, and one advocated "cleaning
out bureau drawers."
Responses to questions on cur-
riculum revealed that a large per-
cent approve a reading period.
Twelve, however, thought that stu-
dents are not up to using one
properly. The new schedule was
favored by a smaller majority. Al-
though 43 students liked the com-
prehensive system as it is, 22 sug-
erested improvements. Some felt
the preparation for them should be
better organized with reading per-